COLLAPSE OF ECONOMIC SUPER POWERS IN THE WORLD: DIVINE ANALYSIS
Sri Sathya Sai Speaks
Nowadays, morality is gradually declining in the economic sphere. Man is
hanging himself with the rope of wealth. To widen morality, one has to decrease
the greed for money. As money increases, ego and bad qualities increase. Today,
when people become wealthy, their respect for others becomes sparse, though
they expect great respect from others. This is not proper. The absence of
ethics and spirituality in business is the cause of their downfall.
The people of all nations enquire into the first two questions. But some
nations like China and Russia did not enquire into the third question: ‘What is
theism? From where does it come and where does it end? What is the relationship
between man and theism?’
Russia
Russia: Even after disintegration of erstwhile USSR*, Russia has vast
geographical area, but has comparatively less population. They are quite
advanced in industrial development. They export arms, ammunition and
value-added raw materials to other countries. They have plenty of natural
resources even today. They focus more attention on other things as compared to
food grains, which is essential for people. Every year, they import a large
quantity of food grains. Gradually, over a period of 70 years, their faith and
confidence dwindled. But in such an industrially advanced nation, why was there
a decline?
China: If one looks at China, the geographical area is relatively small, but
when compared to large nations like former USSR, the population is huge,
running into billions. China is an emerging economy but poverty is still rife
in the countryside. Chinese people discovered the drawbacks in their country’s
public administration. There were many controls in the pre-liberalisation era
and very little freedom was given to the people in business. There was struggle
in China which affected the dynamic balance among the different constituents of
society.
Germany: East Germany re-merged with West Germany by breaking the Berlin Wall^
to reap economic advantages. Why has Japan advanced? It took help from USA,
learned the technical know-how, indigenized the technology and became more
developed than USA in certain sectors. However, economic development in many
countries has been accompanied by a rise in their egos.
Today, many ancient civilizations are on the decline because morality is on the
decline. As a result, the relationship between man and man, man and society,
and man and nature is worsening. These ills are the effects of the decline of
ethical and spiritual values. People forget the wisdom in the adage, “Man
disregards his own value because he attaches great value to manufactured
goods.” As people go on attaching more and more value to goods and services,
value of people decreases. As the human assessment of commodities goes up,
human values take a beating.
India: Today, India is weak morally (confidence levels) and as such she tries
to ape others. It has not been able to recognise its own distinctive strengths
and achievements. If others progress following a particular path, let India
also try to achieve progress in her own way using its own native systems and
practices. India should not adopt any country’s management practices and
systems simply because they succeeded somewhere else in a phenomenal manner.
India must not forget its own culture at any cost. Our national leaders go
abroad and ask others to invest in our country. Why call outsiders? Earlier,
East India Company too came under the pretext of business and ultimately
captured political power in India and ruled India for about three centuries.
Today, some other country will come and show interest in investing in business.
They are not going to invest without mutual benefit. If you show them the tip
of your finger, they will swallow your hand! Hence always be careful.
Source: Social Culture and Management, Chapter 18, Man Management: A
Values-Based Management Perspective
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* The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the disintegration of the federal
political structures and central government of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR), resulting in the independence of all 15 republics of the
Soviet Union between March 11, 1990 and December 25, 1991. The direct cause of
the dissolution was the failed attempt by Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of the
USSR from March 11, 1985, to revitalise the Soviet economy through a process of
limited political liberalisation within the confines of a totalitarian
communist one-party state. The broader result of the dissolution was the fall
of Communism as a global ideology between 1989 and 1991 and the end of the Cold
War.
^ The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic
(GDR, East Germany) starting on 13th August 1961, that completely cut off West
Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Soviet-dominated
Eastern Bloc officially claimed that the wall was erected to protect its
population from fascist elements
conspiring to prevent the ‘will of the people’ in building a socialist state in
East Germany. However, in practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive
emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc
during the post-World War II period.
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